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K. H. SCHAPBR. GOUNTING REGISTER. No. 423,880. Patented Mar. 18, 1890.

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GOUNTING REGISTER. No. 423,880. Patented Mam. 18, 1890.

UNITED STATES y PATENT OFFICE.

KASPER II. SCIIAPER, OF LINNS MILLS, MISSOURI.

COUNTING-REGISTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 423,880, dated March 18, 1890.

Application filed June 5, 1889. Serial No. 313,199. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, KASPER II. SCHAPER, of Linns Mills, Lincoln county, Missouri, have made anew and useful Improvement in Registers, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The improvement consists substantially as is hereinafter set forth and claimed, aided by the annexed drawings, making' part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a face view of the improved reg ister; Fig. 2, a section on the line 2 2 of Fig.

4; Fig. 3, a longitudinal section on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2; Fig. 4, a transverse section on the line 44 of Fig. 2; and Figs. 5 and C, views analogous to that of Fig. 2, but showing, respectively, different means for operating the register.

rIhe same letters of reference denote the same parts.

A represents the register-case.

B represents the units-wheel. It is fastened to the shaft C, Figs. I, 2,and 4, which is journaled in the back a of the case, and its outer end projects through the front d of the case, and upon the outer end are journaled successively the tens-wheel D and the hundreds- Wheel E, substantially as shown in Fig. 4.

The units-Wheel B can be operated by any suitable means. In Fig. 2 a longitudinallyreciprocating bar F, carrying a spring-pawl f, whose point engages with the ratchet l) of the units-wheel, is the means for transmittin the motion to the units-wheel and causing' it to rotate in the direction of the arrow Every stroke of the bar F causes the unitswheel to rotate a distance of one tooth, and twenty strokes of the bar eifect the complete rotation of the units-wheel, and the shoulder b, Figs. 2 and 4, to encounter one of the cogs g of a gear G, Figs. 2 and 3. rlhis gear G and another gear H are fastened to a shaft 72 which is parallel with the shaft C and journaled in the case. The cogs g of the gear are respectively opposite the spaces 7L between the cogs h2 of the gear H, substantially as shown in Fig. 2, in which iigure the cogs g appear in broken lines. This relative arrangement of the cogs g and h2 is essential to the proper working of the device. The continued rotation of the units-wheel after its shoulder b has encountered the cog g causes the gears G and II and shaft 7L to be rotated a distance of one cog. The gear II intermeshes with the teeth d of the tens-wheel D, Fig. 3, and this last-named wheel is thereby rotated on its bearing a distance of one tooth.

rIhe gear II is provided with a vprojection h3, which extends into the plane of the hundreds-wheel E, Fig. 3, and when the gear II has been worked around one rotation the projection h:S causes it to engage with the hundreds-wheel E and effect the rotation thereof a distance of one of its teeth e.

All the described wheels or gears have ten teeth, saving the units-wheel,whichhas twenty teeth. The units, tens, and hundreds wheels are respectively provided with hands I J K, Figs. l and 3, which are carried around, respectively, with the wheels B D E, and are operated in connection with the dial-plate L, Fig. l.. Every time the wheel Bis rotated one tooth its hand I moves one space Z on the dial-that is, say, from O to the half-mark l. Every time the tens or the hundreds wheel is rotated one tooth its hand moves two spaces Z on the dial-that is, say, from O to l. As the units-hand is within one space lof the 0 .mark on the dial, and is moving over that space, the tens-hand moves two spaces, and when the units-hand is about to complete its tenth revolution and the tens-hand its 'first revolution the hundreds -hand moves two spaces Z on the dial.

If it is desired to count above one thousand, a fourth wheel and hand are added to the register, together with suitable means substantially similar to what has been described in effecting the movement of the other wheels.

Suitable means-such as the pawls M M', Fig. 2-are employed to `prevent the wheels from being jarred out of place or from turning backward.

In Figs. 5 and G the bars F F2, respectively, are pivoted, and the bar F has one pawl f, and the bar F2 has two pawls f for co1nmunieating' the motion of the bar to the gear B. The action of the bars F F2 and pawls f is obvious, and the bars F F2 and pawls are substantially the equivalent of the bar F and pawl.

I claim- The combination, in a register, of the shaft journaled in the casing, the units -wheel IOO mounted thereon and having` twenty teeth and Carrying the single shoulder b', the reoiprooating bar F, the springpawl f, moving` the units-wheel one tooth at eaoh reciprocation of the bar F, the gear-wheel G, having ten teeth and rotated by said shoulder b', the toothed wheel H, having ten teeth, mounted on the same shaft as the gear-wheel G, turning therewith, and provided with a single projeotion h3, the gears G and H arranged With the oogs or teeth of one opposite the spaces between the oogs of the other, the tens-wheel D, having ten teeth, mounted loosely on the same wheel as the units-wheel,the hundredswheel E, having ten teeth, mounted loosely on the hub of the tens-Wheel and rotated by the projection h on the wheel ll, the springpawls or detents M M', and the indicatorhands I J K, respectively moved by the units, tens, and hundreds wheels, substantially as specified.

Vitness my hand this 27th day of May, 1889.

KASPER H. SCHAPER.

Vitnesses:

C. K. DAvis, CHAs. MARTIN. 

